NED11 The article Tim Berners-Lee's answers to Frequently asked questions by the Press, documents several important milestones that are not mentioned in Hobbes Timeline, despite this the article makes reference to many important milestones made in the development of the World Wide Web. The following are the 5 that I identified as being the most significant:
1. 1991: World Wide Web is released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer (;pb1:). First Web server is nxoc01.cern.ch, launched in Nov 1990 and later renamed info.cern.ch.
2. 1993: Mosaic takes the internet by storm (22 Apr); WWW proliferates at a 341, 634% annual growth rate of service traffic. Gophers growth is 997%
3. 1994: WWW edges out telnet to become 2nd most popular service on the Net (behind ftp-data) based on % of packets and bytes traffic distribution on NSFNET
4. 1996: WWW browser war, fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, has rushed a new age in software development, whereby new releases are made quartley with the help of internet uss eager to test upcoming (beta) versions
5. 2008: Google’s crawler reaches 1 trillion pages, although only a fraction are indexed by the search engine. For comparison, Google’s original index had 26 million pages in 1998, and reached 1 billion in 2000.
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
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